Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dark-eyed Junco

Dark-eyed Junco
Voting period ends on 3 Jan 2012 at 05:27:44 (UTC)
 * Reason:very large photo, already featured on Commons, lead image for two articles
 * Articles in which this image appears:Dark-eyed Junco, Junco
 * FP category for this image:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds
 * Creator:Cephas


 * Support as nominator --Pinetalk 05:27, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Support -- Striking. Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:32, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak Support It is a pretty impressive picture, (as Crisco said above, "Striking"). I don't like how, starting right at the top of its wing, it slowly starts to drift out of focus (until it is completely out of focus when it reaches its tail). It takes away from the pictures integrity. Dusty777 (talk) 22:11, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Neutral Lots of the bird is in shadow (fill flash can help with that) and the pose is awkward. Out of focus areas with small birds are almost a fact of life though (the photographer has stopped down a lot as is). It is otherwise technically well executed. JJ Harrison (talk) 11:25, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak support per JJ, and I also find the bokeh a little unappealing and distracting. --jjron (talk) 12:43, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Color of background means there is little contrast with subject.  Gray on gray.  Several images in article have better color contrast of subject and background.TCO (Reviews needed) 07:14, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. I don't buy the criticisms made here - shadow issue doesn't seem too strong, and the bird is clearly differentiated from its background at its entire outline. DOF issue has been explained by JJ. I think we'll eventually have to have a set for this species as no single image (taken in nature, at least!) can represent the colour and patterning variation, geographic and otherwise. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 11:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 10:48, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Support < 5 Makeemlighter (talk) 10:48, 3 January 2012 (UTC)